This included a long drive contest in which Paul O’Neill, the heart of the Yankees World Series dynasty of recent past, uncorked a reported 357-yard drive. Which should have those fat guys on the Long Drive Tour howling to their commissioner/ball cleaner (believe that’s TravelGolf.com’s own William K. Wolfrum) the way Henry Aaron’s people are howling to Bud Selig.

Now, I’m not saying that the celebrity drives were distance enhanced … but whoever measured the yardage out on Edgewood Tahoe’s first hole for the contest understands math about as well as soccer icon David Beckham. And Beckham famously admitted that his 6-year-old son Brooklyn’s math homework was too tough for him.

I watched most of this long drive contest and saw obscure comedian Anthony Anderson get credited with a 242-yard drive and worse yet, built NFL tight end Todd Heap get gifted with a 257-yard drive on shots that appeared to go about where I drove the ball playing Edgewood. Believe me, I wasn’t blasting it 250 with my non NFL tight end frame.

They might as well have put the 100-yard target right next to the tee for how accurate these measurements were. When Anderson lost his driver on one attempted bomb, sending it flying over fans’ heads into a bush farther up than where his ball landed, he should have shouted out, “300 yards baby!” Surely, he would have been credited with it.

Look, I know celebrities need their egos massaged. But this is getting embarrassing. Paul O’Neill should be above this kind of thing. Would Babe Ruth approve? OK, probably. As long as a hot dog was included.

But an inflated celebrity long drive contest … What’s next, professional wrestling turns out to be less than authentic?